Sectional kitchen-safe



(Nb Model.)

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panying drawings, forming part of this speci- UNITED STATES CHARLES KADE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PATENT OFFrcE.

SECTIONAL KITCHEN-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,328, dated April 11, 1882. Application filed October 31, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES KADE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin sectionalKitchen-Safes, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accomfication.

Myinvention relates to a kitchen-safe of the class known as knockdown, the safe being so constructed as to be set up or taken down without injury and without the use of nails or screws, and so that the means of attachment will be hiddenwhen the safe is standing in position for use.

In thedrawings,Figure1isaperspectiveview of the walls of the safe with one end removed, giving an inside view of the same. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the safe-top. Fig.3 is a detail horizontal section at 3 3, Fig. 5. Fig. 4is a detail vertical section at 4 4, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail vertical section at 5 5, Fig. 3.

A are the four vertical corner-posts, ending at bottom in legs a. B are the back bars, and O the thin parts or panels of the back. 1) are front bars. E are the doors, supported on hinges, as usual. The end walls,F, of the safe have a number of horizontal strips orbars, Gr, whose ends 9 project in the form of dovetail tenons, which engage in dovetail notches a made in the inner corners of the corner-posts The construction of the dovetailjoints is such that when the front and back of the safe are standing in the position they occupy when put together (see Fig. 1) the ends F can be sooured to the front and back by first placing the ends between the front and back walls, inside the posts, and then moving the ends F outward and driving the dovetail tenonsg in- .the outer side of the safe.

wise. The shelves act as struts and braces,-

giving additional firmness to the safe. An ordinary drawer is put into the space between the upper pair of frontbars', D. The ends of the posts A project above the sides and ends in the form of dovetail tenons o which enter dovetail grooves it formed in the under side of the top board, H, of the safe. These grooves or channels h are made from the back edge,h', toward the front edge, k but do not extend, preferably, quite to the front edge, so that they are not seen from the front of the safe.

To give support to the ends of the drawer, I make the upper bar, G,.at each end of the safe somewhat wider than those below; but

this is not an essential feature, for separate cleats may be put on for this purpose. I claim- 1. The combination of corner-posts A, having notches a on their inner sides, and end pieces, F, provided with strips G, havingtenons g occupying said notches and securingthe ends to the posts, as set forth.

2. The combination of posts A with tenons a at their tops and top hoard, H, grooved for the reception of the tenons, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES KADE.

Witnesses SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

